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Definition of Handbaskets
1. handbasket [n] - See also: handbasket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handbaskets
Literary usage of Handbaskets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Native Villages and Village Sites East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1919)
"In the houses we found wooden Boules, Trayes & Dishes, Earthen Pots, handbaskets
made of Crab shells wrought together . ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"I saw a glass-case full of poodle-dogs, seventy-fours, landaus, handbaskets, and
several other gimcracks, nailed to a doorpost with " only a shilling," on a ..."
3. The Pilgrim Fathers, Their Church and Colony by Winnifred Cockshott (1909)
"In the houses, too, were wooden bowls, trays, and dishes, earthen pots, handbaskets
made of crab shells, and an English pail or bucket, besides baskets of ..."
4. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1873)
"... and were laden with bundles and handbaskets, after the manner of old women
generally. The men were in a small minority, and nearly all of them old. ..."
5. Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakspere's Youth, A by Phillip Stubbes, Thomas Neogeorgus, Gervase Babington (1879)
"has E.'s ' handbaskets' headline, on back, and 'great paynes ' side-note, &c.
11 ii 14.—has all the side-notes and headlines markt EF, and the top sidenote ..."
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